There is an etiquette to be followed but Americans and Brits don't agree
‘Needing to sit next to your partner is not the sign of a happy relationship but the opposite,’ says Christina Hopkins If you’re planning to invite me to your wedding, big birthday bash or corporate event I’ve got only one request: don’t sit me next to my husband. It’s not that I don’t like him, quite the opposite, I’m one of those people for whom that cheesy Instagram phrase is true, I did get to marry my best friend.
Meghan had, according to another piece over the weekend, been traumatised by attending Pippa Middleton’s wedding, where the bride had insisted on the “unusual request” of a “strict seating plan that separated every couple in attendance”. Not forever, of course, they weren’t all banished to some gulag of eternal singledom, but merely for time it takes to eat a feast of trout and lamb washed down with a 2002 Dom Ruinart Champagne.
Canvassing wedding etiquette sites, it seems far more common to sit couples next to each other. The Knot, which specialises in all things wedding related, says “it’s advisable to seat couples together”, while an Australian wedding planner cautions that they should be “next to each other should they wish to engage inconversations” .
And that doesn’t feel like a coincidence. Needing to sit next to your partner is not the sign of a happy relationship but the opposite, a needy co-dependence that doesn’t bode well for your future. You wonder how the woman having palpitations at the thought of not being able to hold her boyfriend’s hand over the salmon-and-prawn roulade feels about going to work on her own every day.
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